Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies That Work--And Why, Paperback

Contributor(s):

• Author: Michael Reichert
• Author: Richard Hawley
• Foreword by: Peg Tyre

Based on an extensive worldwide study, this book reveals what getsboys excited about learning

Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys challenges the widely-heldcultural impression that boys are stubbornly resistant to schoolingwhile providing concrete examples of pedagogy and instructionalstyle that have been proven effective in a variety of schoolsettings. This book offers more than 100 detailed examples oflessons that succeed with male students, grouped thematically. Suchthemes include: Gaming, Motor Activities, Open Inquiry, Competition, Interactive Technology, and Performance/Role Play.Woven throughout the book is moving testimony from boys that bothvalidates the success of the lessons and adds a human dimension totheir impact.

• The author's presents more than 100+ specific activities forall content areas that have proven successful with malestudents
• Draws on an in-depth, worldwide study to reveal what lessonsand strategies most engage boys in the classroom
• Has been described as the missing link that our schools needfor the better education of boys

• School Library Journal - pg. 148 - 05/01/2011
• Publishers Weekly - 07/19/2010